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LOT 1517
Luristan Bronze Dirk
2ND-1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
14 1/2 in. (275 grams, 37 cm).
With a parallel-sided blade curving to a point, with a broad mid-rib, and a rectangular-section tang.
Provenance
Ex Abelita family collection, 1980s-2000s.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 17.25, for type.
Footnotes
MacGregor dated such blades to the Late Bronze Age or Early Iron Age. Moorey, Gordon and Khorasani created a classification of bladed weapons, according to which daggers are edged weapons no greater than 36cm in length, dirks (short swords) are between 36cm and 50cm in length, and swords are edged weapons greater than 50cm in length.
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